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What's wrong with the old thread plus why no witty title?
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Sep 26, 2011 05:54
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Zorak posted:The OP hasn't updated in over a year and there's still NV content coming out? Fair enough then.
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Sep 26, 2011 06:03
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Guys I think we can all agree that Civ V was a terrible insult to the fans and move on to discussing important issues like how many one hundredth scale Deathclaws it would take to kill a one hundred times scale Legate Lanius.
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Sep 26, 2011 08:41
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One thing I've never bothered with is silenced weapons. Sleepytime or 12.7mm SMG with silencer mod? e: or something else?
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Aug 30, 2013 07:47
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CommissarMega posted:Sleepytime; if you have a high Sneak (and you should), then you can bring it into casinos as a holdout weapon. it also uses 10mm, which is a damned sight more common and less expensive than 12.7mm. Does the damage of Sleepytime hold up against the 12.7mm in regular fights? There aren't that many casino fights in the game that I'm inclined to pick weapons based on that.
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Aug 30, 2013 08:06
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Yasser Arafatwa posted:Man, Dead Money was easily one of least enjoyable slogs I've ever encountered. The level design was tedious, the collar and alarms were tedious, the enemies were tedious, the NPCs were entirely unpleasant to deal with, the entire background and story was uninteresting, and the ending made it feel like a complete waste of time. I really can't think of a game or DLC I regret spending time on more than Dead Money. Mass Effect 3 comes the closest. I absolutely loved Dead Money and of the NV DLC it's probably the one I enjoy re-playing the most (the least being Honest Hearts).
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Aug 30, 2013 08:27
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Is it at all possible to do the quests for both and get both safehouses? I've never done the Legion quests before but the NCR ones are too fun and ubiquitous to not do them as well.
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Aug 30, 2013 20:49
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StandardVC10 posted:Ugh, I'm having a really obnoxious issue with Honest Hearts- the Survivalist's Rifle and accompanying ammunition is missing. And I can't find it on any dead White Legs nearby, after two tries from a pretty old quicksave. Basically what I think happened is this: yesterday or the day before I had passed that area of the map and a White Leg dude picked that stuff up, and later in that session Follows-Chalk died in combat. Shortly before or after (I think after) loading an earlier save, my game crashed. Anyway, I'd been playing from the earlier save, but maybe the fact that the rifle was missing from the pack somehow carried over? Last time I played Honest Hearts, Walking Cloud picked the Survivalist's Rifle up and I didn't realize until almost the end of the DLC.
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Sep 1, 2013 05:10
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You can easily finish Dead Money with a totally new character, the weapons and companions you pick up there are more than enough to deal with the fairly fragile enemies even with 0 combat skills. To get the absolute best ending I think you need quite high speech, to get the most out of looting you would want maxed lockpick/science. To get probably the second most valuable bit of loot from Dead Money you will want 7+ luck (and you can't bring in any +Luck items and there are no +Luck items in the DLC). The most valuable bit of loot you get given immediately when you start.
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Sep 1, 2013 08:36
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^^^ There are also several Lever shotgunsDeathChicken posted:Man, those enemies in Dead Money would gently caress you up if you didn't have decent combat skills. Especially the guys with gas bombs. The stretches where you can rely on Dog or Dean to kill everyone are comparatively small compared to the stretches where you're all alone. I usually use Christine to kill all the baddies when you can take a follower, then when I'm by myself either the Holorifle or the Police Pistol will kill any of the enemies with at most three up close VATS headshots. You don't need good combat skills to make VATS shots right up close. The thing that always made them seem approachable to me as a new character is a) they never appear in large groups, b) they don't use guns or energy weapons, c) they don't really have armor, and d) they shamble around in stops and starts.
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Sep 1, 2013 18:25
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Ravenfood posted:And getting kicked out of the Sierra Madre is basically the best casino result possible. More like getting a never-ending supply of Sierra Madre chips that you can turn in for Weapon Repair Kits.
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Sep 1, 2013 21:05
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Sudoku posted:Hell no, turn all your chips into pre-war money before you leave. You now have more caps than you'll ever need, forever. A single complimentary voucher at the BoS bunker will give you more than enough weapon repair kits, and those come back! You have to break the bank at the Sierra Madre to even get the recipe to turn those vouchers in. That's actually exactly what I was talking about, although whether or not it's worth it to turn your chips from the DLC in for Pre-War Money is kind of debatable I think, since you can only get the 10 caps per stack if you have max barter.
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Sep 1, 2013 22:43
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Talking Deathclaws were cool. Wooly Deathclaws!
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Sep 2, 2013 00:09
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Sleepy Owl posted:So I just finished my second run of Dead Money, and it was really easy this time. I went in at level 10 specializing in unarmed and explosives, and every fight was trivial. The bear trap fist can more or less kill a ghost man in one VATS round, and there's no need to worry about ammo, or even repairs since Trappers are so common. And of course, gas bombs wreck everything. He just randomly says he's going to come down after you say you'll wait for him. I think there must have been some last minute change that wasn't fully vetted before they released Dead Money, because that dialogue has never made sense to me.
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Sep 2, 2013 03:43
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Tyrone Biggums posted:I'm replaying this for the first time in 2 years and holy goddamn Still in the Dark is Those Brotherhood quests point out and then give you a reason to explore some of the most profitable and interesting bits of the Mojave. Would you prefer if the game were just shorter?
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Sep 4, 2013 04:22
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the woooooorst quest
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Tyrone Biggums posted:Obsidian could have cut out the entire second stage of the quest and I don't think the game would lose anything from it. I also think they could have put two of the dead paladins in more interesting spots than "just outside Hidden Valley" and "just outside Nellis". That spot is actually part of the Black Mountain broadcast station, you get sent there later to presumably do what they died there trying to do.
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Sep 4, 2013 04:41
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Wolfsheim posted:I honestly do kinda wish there were some way to finish that quest without as much running around. I thought it was pretty cool the first time I was able to start 'Still in the Dark' at like Level 3 (as well as haul out a suit of stolen power armor and a super sledge for Raul, essentially making him even more unstoppable) just by being willing to poke into high level areas and using some tricks. It even kinda makes more sense that way, because the areas McNamara sends you to can all be accessed early on. I've never minded this quest being difficult to do at low level. After this one you just have to a pretty trivial quest and then blammo power armor. The only bit that is really difficult at low level is Vault 34 (the Nellis AFB artillery is just poorly implemented IMO, and you have to do it anyway for other quests so eh), because for some reason the ghouls inside the vault just will not die, and some of them are sorcerers.
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Sep 4, 2013 04:58
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StandardVC10 posted:Still in the Dark doesn't make you go to Vault 34. Veronica's sidequest can involve going to Vault 34 as one outcome. Oh yeah you're right. Then there are no bits to Still in the Dark that are too hard for a new character really.
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Sep 4, 2013 08:00
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Reasons I recommend hardcore mode: - Companions no longer invincible (especially important for Dead Money, invincible companions here seems especially stupid) - Stimpacks have weight. - Ammo has weight. - Food/Water/Sleep pressure give you a reason to set up a base and return there periodically which breaks up the fast travel jet-setting. - Lots of items which were useless become useful (Nuka-cola, Sunset Sarsaparilla, water, food). Also I know this isn't the mod thread but JSawyer's mod and PN both are really good for rebalancing hardcore mode to make it more interesting. I play with both on.
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Sep 4, 2013 17:13
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Stimpaks don't have weight in HC mode just as in normal mode. That's a specific change added by jsawyer. Even more reason to use JSawyer's mod!
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Sep 4, 2013 18:47
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I only ever use quicksave, don't see any reason to use autosaves. Is it for when you save right as a grenade is about to go off at your feet?
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Sep 4, 2013 19:28
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I don't need or want to know what they are, but should I be expecting any useful energy weapons in The Lonesome Road? I played it 1/3 or 1/2 way through when it first came out, and am only finally getting around to playing it all the way through now. The flare gun and arc welder are disappointing, to say the least. Luckily I do have 100 explosives as well on this character, so getting some good mileage out of Red Glare 
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Sep 5, 2013 18:37
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LogisticEarth posted:I just finished Lonesome Road for the first time, and holy hell did I get tired of Ulysses quickly. I remember people talking about how interesting the dialog was , but it seemed like it was just a bunch of overly vague monologues that never got to the point, and the mediocre acting didn't help. I definitely would appreciate something fresher than red-colored ghouls wearing mashed up legion/NCR armor. Even if they were Omega Man style albino ghouls with black robes, that would have been pretty awesome.
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Sep 5, 2013 20:05
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Perhaps I've missed the interesting backstory for the Marked Men. Are they not just Legion and NCR soldiers that were in the divide for some military purpose and then were ghoul-ified and went semi-feral? There's already a town full of ghoul NCR troops in the Mojave.
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Sep 5, 2013 22:46
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2house2fly posted:The divide is plagued by heavy dust storms that can skin you alive. The same cataclysm that caused the NCR and Legion troops that were there to become irradiated and turn into ghouls also caused them to be exposed to these dust storms. So you have these beings who've suffered pain and injuries that should have killed them outright, but were sustained by their new radioactive healing factor. They're still in constant pain because their skin was seared off; that's why they're red. They also live in awesome little cinder-block tents. Ok so I didn't miss anything.
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Sep 5, 2013 23:10
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Anybody have any idea how to stop my character sliding forwards a little bit after releasing the movement keys on PC? It's not the game forcing me to make a full step because the third person model shows the character upright but sliding. I've tried changing my keyboard settings to no effect. I've had that in every Bethesda FPS Gamebryo game and never seen a fix.
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Sep 5, 2013 23:19
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Why can't Veronica use the Industrial Hand? She has the required strength and it's an unarmed weapon. Does the AI prioritize the power fist above it?
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Sep 7, 2013 06:25
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It really sucks that you can't craft 25mm grenades when you can craft rockets and so many kinds of hand held explosives. My favorite explosives weapon is probably Red Glare but for some reason when I tried to use it on Legate Lanius it did gently caress all damage. Entire HE rocket magazine to his face took about 1/4 of his health.
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Sep 8, 2013 19:55
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Doug Lombardi posted:Veronica has nothing to do with Power Armor Training beyond bypassing the Brotherhood of Steel's introductory quest to get rid of a Ranger in Hidden Valley. Also you don't have to wait for ED-E to get hacked by Lorenzo and/or lockpick a Very Hard door and/or advance the plot to the point where you have to make contact with the BoS. Grabbing Veronica is definitely less effort than those things.
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Sep 9, 2013 07:06
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Wolfsheim posted:Yeah, if you know what you're doing you can pretty much gain access immediately, just have to kill some scorpions and run from some centaurs. Veronica is still easier than that. Goodsprings -> Neil's Shack -> 188 Trading Post -> [Fast Travel] Neil's Shack -> Hidden Valley. Takes maybe 10 minutes, no skill checks, no savescumming, no fighting.
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Sep 9, 2013 17:20
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Wolfsheim posted:Eh, true, but that's a little too meta-gamey for my tastes. I'm not any kind f master roleplayer, but I like to at least play through the game in a way that the courier could possibly stumble into. I think I've done all these quests so many times I have no idea what I'm meant to know and not know, I definitely don't read the dialogues anymore. Usually I roll 6 luck (5 if I'm feeling very patient) and go directly to Vegas via the Neil's shack route and go Naughty Nightwear -> Atomic Wrangler -> Luck Implant -> Vegas casinos -> Every other implant 
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Sep 10, 2013 07:58
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If FO3 were GTA3 then NV would be Vice City and San Andreas rolled into one.
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Sep 11, 2013 02:38
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Ianiniho posted:I agree NV is the better game, but is the scenery in it better? I mean 3's placement of things was haphazard as hell, but it was real fun to explore. They created some mighty interesting places like that town on the bridge and things; they just didn't utilise them very well. Scenery is definitely more varied and pretty in NV. There is a mod that improves the flora and makes it seem less dead, makes it even nicer. Vurt's Flora Overhaul or some such.
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Sep 11, 2013 03:21
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snooman posted:Apparently I didn't pay much attention on previous playthroughs. When I got to Nipton my brain firmly reminded me that the town was completely bereft of anything useful to the cause, but I had a pleasant surprise when I bothered to explore every house. The same thing happened at REPCONN--no worries about scrounging for ammo now. Put it this way: when I do playthroughs of FO: NV I always run through all of the DLCs (exception being Lonesome Road, and to a lesser extent OWB, because it didn't exist while I was doing the bulk of my playing) but I will usually only pick and choose bits of the base game to play. This may not be a popular sentiment but I think basically each DLC had about as much to say as the entire base game, just boiled down into a much more succinct package. The best bits of FO3 were DLC, but not all of the FO3 DLC were worth playing.
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Sep 12, 2013 00:13
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The tunnelers did indeed feel very off to me. The monster design seems quite swarmy and squishy but the things seem to be at least as tough as Deathclaws and hit like trucks. Shooting them with the flare gun is a blast but ultimately kind of pointless since they take so much effort to kill.
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Sep 12, 2013 18:10
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Ravenfood posted:Not at the beginning it isn't. In FO3, you can leave the Vault and walk anywhere and not run into problems. While you can do that in FNV, its a lot harder, and you'll feel like you're forced to do the plot more. Unless you know what you're doing, FNV feels more on rails until you hit Vegas, and then it opens wide up, whereas FO3 never loses that roaming quality. Did you forget the part where you are physically stuck inside the vault for several quests (how long does this take the first time, I forget, maybe 30-60 minutes?). In NV you can run off the instant your character is created.
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Sep 13, 2013 16:03
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Hra Mormo posted:I think this really sums up why I couldn't get into FNV until my 3rd try whereas I could get into 3 without issues. Only after knowing abit about the game could I actually play it without feeling like there was nothing of significance to explore and anything of substance that you did find always left you feeling like you skipped an important phase and broke something. I mean it's still like that, if you do something you're not supposed to you're more likely to break something rather than end up with any advantage. Hell, I did it again on my current playthrough. I'd never taken Veronica before, and guess what! If you get the ARCHIMEDES rangefinder before the quest tells you to you'll gently caress things up so hard it'll take some consolefuckery to fix. Fallout 3 by comparison always felt stable, wholesome, polished and open. It's just everything else where FNV pulls the long straw. The way I feel about it in the long run is Fallout 3 is an Elder Scrolls game whereas New Vegas is a Fallout game. There are two other ways to finish that quest, no need for using the console. That's such an insignificant bug.
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Sep 13, 2013 16:36
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Hra Mormo posted:What happened was having the rangefinder caused the scene with turning in the rangefinder to happen the very first time I take Veronica to see the elder. From this moment on the fact I had the rangefinder was never recognized again. When I went to the comm shack, Veronica asked me what I want to go get. Selecting the rangefinder option caused an infinite conversation loop. Eventually I just said gently caress it, and did the farming data instead. But lo and behold, bringing that to the elder didn't do jack poo poo and neither Veronica or the Elder had anything to say. I tried half a dozen fixes and the only thing that worked was using the console to force the conversation to happen. I still agree that it's an insignificant bug because Veronica's quest is insignificant in itself. Fair enough, that sounds pretty bad.
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Sep 13, 2013 17:17
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2house2fly posted:To be fair, two of New Vegas's DLCs start that way. The two best ones, even! All of them start with a cut-scene (except the really tiny ones like GRA that don't add locations)?
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Sep 13, 2013 23:45
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Sleepy Owl posted:Lonesome Road doesn't Oh I guess you're right. It's handy too because it's right next to Goodsprings and you're allowed to come and go, so you can duck in there and get some free late-game loot right off the bat without having to sit through the slide show.
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